Guantanamo – Yoel Perez Garcia, the top political leader in the eastern territory, urged the inhabitants of the Guantanamo City to make it a more beautiful and clean city, as well as to obtain one again the Vanguard status held by the easternmost province of the country in the emulative movement of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) some years ago.
In his intervention during the news program En Frecuencia con el Pueblo, which the CMKS Radio Station broadcasts at 1:30 p.m every last Saturday of each month, Perez García analyzed the situation regarding the abundant presence of solid waste in the capital of the province, as well as the actions and alternatives to deal with the situation.
The second half hour of En Frecuencia con el Pueblo, focused on highlighting the actions in the territory to celebrate the 64th anniversary of the largest mass organization in the country, and the challenges to improve its operation, as well as the significance of its work in the daily life of the people of Guantanamo.
During the radio program, Pérez García was accompanied by the Mayor of the Guantánamo Municipality, Rolando Cantillo Hernández; Geovanis Fernández, director of the Department of Assets and Investments in the provincial government, and Digler Ortiz Reyes, provincial coordinator of the CDR.
Cantillo Hernández pointed out that in the Guantánamo City, around 1,200 cubic meters of waste are generated daily, which is why Communal Services Enterprise is undergoing a reorganization of its activity based on a business system subordinated to the municipal government.
He explained that the communal services management has an office and a structure subordinated to the local and provincial governments. These changes have the purpose of transforming its management, increasing the levels of activity, quality and satisfaction of the population, as well as promoting efficiency, use of resources, better use of the workforce and increased income.
In the easternmost province of the country, 10 companies were approved in the same number of municipalities, which by self-financing, present a new scheme in their economic management.
Cantillo said that today it is a challenge to keep the city clean, to guarantee the sweeping and collection of garbage to its final destination, since there are deficiencies in material and human resources.
The lack of fuel, the lack of tires and batteries, and the social indiscipline that caused the creation of small-rubbish dumps in many areas of the Guantánamo City also hinder the work of this service.
For the communal hygiene of the main municipality, there is limited specialized equipment, but, despite the difficulties to maintain the activity, alternatives are being sought for priority collection of rubble in the health and education centers and main streets of the city.
The Mayor also announced the recovery of mechanical means of waste collection and the government decision to pay 15 thousand pesos per month to the cart drivers, who progressively join the garbage collection in the fifth most populated city in Cuba.
The top authorities call the population to contribute to sanitizing the village of the Guaso River, the home of all Guantanamo residents.
Guantánamo aims to achieve National Vanguard status by 2025 in the CDR
Regarding the current functioning of the CDR, Digler Ortiz Reyes, its provincial Coordinator, reported on the implementation of actions to revitalize and strengthen the organization, and explained that by 2025 they intend to achieve National Vanguard status on the 65th anniversary of the CDR.
He pointed out that among the challenges is to recover the drive that characterized its members, and to establish the link between the professional structure of the cadres and the grass-root-committees, because there is a huge potential in the people, which needs to be awakened.
Raising revolutionary vigilance, combating social indiscipline and avoiding the proliferation of dumps in the neighborhoods of the provincial capital are the main objectives of the largest mass organization in the province to celebrate the 64th anniversary of its creation by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, on September 28, 1960.
